SING!

Meet Buster Moon. An ambitious and crazy owner of a theatre. He deicides to organise a competition in which everyone can check their singing skills. The event gets a huge attention because of a mistake - instead of 1.000$ prize for the winner, Buster's secretary (distracted yet adorable) types 100.000$. Will the show save the theatre? This is SING! a new production of Illumination Mac Guff.

The director Gareth Jennings decided to make a fairytale for children, which shows current trend to create talent shows on TV and music stars. The plot of the story is simple yet full of undeniably diversified characters. So there we have a 200 years old lizard – Buster's devoted secretary, a mafia of bears speaking (obviously) with a Russian accent, an extremely shy elephant – Meena,  or a mother of 25 piggies – Rosita. Even though all of them are so different they share the same goal - fulfilling their dreams. SING! teaches the viewers (both those young and old ones) that you should never give up. You have to overcome the internal barriers which usually you create yourself. The story shows people's attitiudes, relationships, worries, sorrows and joys - everyday life.

What's more, SING! (obviously!) has 65 great songs - contemporary and classics - which will surely conquer the hearts of viewers. Therefore, it it's not surprising at all that the peals of laughter can be heard when we watch the casting scene in which the animals perform the biggest radio hits: Butterfly by Crazy Town, Anaconda by Nicki Minaj, Stay With Me by Sam Smith or Bad Romance by Lady Gaga. However, there is one daredevil who gives the most hilarious performance - because how can you not laugh when you see a snail singing Ride Like The Wind by Christopher Cross?

SING! moves and entertains. Thanks to the fact that the story takes place in an imaginary world inhabited by animals, we can easily notice the reflection of ourselves in the real world. A production definitely worth watching because who needs Broadway if there is SING! ?

 

Beata Jaranowska

 

 

 

 

 

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